[Sean Kapleton]

what do you mean i have been trying to capture using the 4-6pin firewire this entore time – what hint?

[Sean Kapleton]

Hey thank you everyone for replying to my post i really appreciate all of your time and effort. The camera is the Panasonic HVX200P and I am still unable to ingest the footage but i can see it on the camera so i know its on the tape.

I still am having trouble ingesting this footage from the camera into final cut 6.0.1 so i am hoping someone can walk me through the settings in that I have to ship this camera back by noon.

Again here are the settings I shot this Mini DV tape at – I inserted a miniDV tape and set the camera to FILM not Video and then 480i 60i with the Cine V scene file selected. The Aspect Conv setting is at Normal and I am not sure how to tell whether or not i was shooting Anamorphic to answer you Walter.

I need to capture this footage and I have tried a few different capture settings (DV, DV anamorphic, etc.) I have no clue what setting to use but before it was giving me an error message when i selected HDV obviously now i know it is NOT HDV but at least by choosing any of the DV setting in capture it opens up the log and capture window – unfortunately i have no deck control of the camera and cannot seem to ingest it.

I am hoping i just need to correct the settings so please anyone who has some ideas and can help please respond or call me asap.

your desperate editor,

BK

[Sean Kapleton]

Thank you very much sir

[Sean Kapleton]

Update: I Found the Power cord for this powerbook!!

Thanks for replying so fast Noah – that alone is pretty cool of you sir – i really appreciate that, sorry to be so crazy. I have very little experience shooting and only intermediate experience using Final cut (mostly DV). So for questions about white balance and any other field settings you recommend going to those resources you mention?

For questions about editing in these different formats within final cut and time remapping would you suggest posting in that user forum? In that I will be handling the editing and my friend the After effects stuff – i guess my main questions would be about when to shoot the 60fps stuff and what/when to switch to something slower for shots which do not have motion involved.

Again thanks for getting back to us and I look forward to that DVD
all the best

[Sean Kapleton]

haha ok i am leaving the office now because its late and the lady is gonna kill me for nerding it out at the office : )

…however i would be curious to know what those other steps / methods are – as I am learning right now as an asst editor every bit of info i can get helps – not enough time and so much to learn. Also, If i were working with hi res live action footage in an uncompressed 10 bit or whatever format wouldn’t i need a raid drive or would i be converting it to pro res or something else (offline) and then when its all done and final approval is there making it hi res / full res and onlining?

I did as you instructed and the rendering was super fast and now everything plays fine, i just don’t know very much so of course there are tons of questions.

ok have a good one and thanks again

[Sean Kapleton]

this is awesome thank you so much for breaking it all down for me – you are kick ass my friend – i really appreciate your time.

all the best

BK

[Sean Kapleton]

Can you clarify for me exactly which setting i need to change to – i looked for that and there are a few close to that and i am not sure…sorry
thanks again
BK

[Sean Kapleton]

ok wow and thats it… it will then be in that setting and i will be able to work. I forgot to mention that the finished quicktimes that i am posting for the agency / client are h.264 480 x 360 so will these look any worse then the ones i have already posted? I guess since everything is coming from small Sorrenson files anyways and not full res or even half res they will look bad regardless – i just was curious about how all that worked and your answer is so simple it almost seem too good to be true : )

In terms of options and quality of image is there anything better or worse i could be using besides what you recommend?

thank you for replying so fast i really appreciate your help – any other opinions / ideas from other people out there?

BK

[Sean Kapleton]

ok great yeah i ended up using this codec at the highest setting and the file ended up being just under 30 MB – so yeah anyways thanks so much i appreciate your time
best
BK

[Sean Kapleton]

I also just tried this app – MoKgVm2DVD which makes .avi & ac3 but which dont seem to play / open in quicktime – i though i had it but alas no luck – unfortunately its for a personal project so i cant bill thw research and work – thanks again for your time and help – you rock
best
Bk